The New Yorker: Poetry

Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reads W.S. Merwin

Apr 17, 2019

29:34

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Artistic Appreciation and Inspiration

01:32

Remembering Poets Through Their Work

01:42

Finding Bliss in Everyday Moments

01:25

I Love the Poem Rain Light

02:07

Introduction

2min

Rainlight by W S Merwin

2min

Thea Magnetic - A Poem About Memory

2min

I Love the Poem Rain Light

2min

Rain Light - It's Always Going to Be Something Different Than the Last Time You Saw It

4min

The Bow Rit A, Most Boring

2min

Heart of Darkness by Rachel Eliza Griffin

3min

The Seahawks Are Reinventing With Data

2min

Slash Radio Hour, I'm Really Astonished by Your Reading of Cecil Taylor

2min

10.

The Cat Is Wild, Is It?

2min

11.

A Poem About Memory

2min

12.

A Cecil, a New Yorker's Poem

2min

13.

The Mother in an Eye in an Ivory Dress

2min

14.

I've Never Met My Father Before, but You Were Styling

2min

15.

Is There More Music Poems as Well?

2min

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The New Yorker Poetry Bodcast

2min

Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins Kevin Young to discuss "Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin, and her own poem "Heart of Darkness." Griffiths is a poet and artist who has received fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, and Yaddo, among others. Her latest book is "Lighting the Shadow."

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